A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.

The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.

This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.

The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

I don't go to parties in general.

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.

I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'

I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.

I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

To be a legend, you generally had to be dead.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.

As I got older, I'd say probably when I got to, like, seventh or eighth grade, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, and I went for an open call for an agent, a local agent out there, a woman named Joy Purvis, and she ended up picking me up.

Heirlooms we dont have in our family. But stories weve got.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

I've a rare Turkish swimming cat.